TSO/ISPF Getting Started

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George Rady

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01. Course Overview

01. Course Overview.mp4

01:37

02. Basic Navigation Using ISPF Panels Menus and PF Keys

02. Personal Introduction.mp4

00:33

03. Overview - TSO vs. ISPF Panels Not Windows Keys vs. Mouse.mp4

01:55

04. Who Still Uses IBMs TSO ISPF.mp4

01:01

05. What Is TSO and Why Do We - Not - Use It.mp4

02:12

06. What Is ISPF and Why Do We Use It Instead of TSO.mp4

02:18

07. Why Are There No Files - Why Are They Called datasets.mp4

05:07

08. Why Does the ISPF Utilities Panel Help Us Understand datasets.mp4

08:58

09. Summary-Now We Know About Datasets and Why We Use ISPF.mp4

02:12

03. Using ISPF Utilities to Find Legacy Programs for a Spec

10. Introduction-Using ISPF Utilities to Find Legacy Programs.mp4

00:13

11. Scenario-Why and How We Need to Find Programs per Specifications.mp4

06:54

12. Demo-Using ISPF Utilities Panels for Searching.mp4

18:52

13. Summary-Using ISPF Panels to Find Spec Programs.mp4

02:11

04. Analyze COBOL Programs Using Multiple ISPF Sessions

14. Overview-Allocating and Copying Programs between PDSes.mp4

00:18

15. Scenario-Create Test PDS Based on Prod PDS and Finding Programs.mp4

03:48

16. Demo-Using Utilities Panels to Set up Test PDS for Our Work.mp4

18:49

17. Summary-Prod vs. Test PDSes Copying Programs and COPY Books.mp4

01:34

05. Editing COBOL Programs in the ISPF Editor

18. Overview-Using the ISPF Editor for COBOL Programs and COPY Books.mp4

00:12

19. Scenario-How to Analyze COPY Books to Identify COBOL Code Changes.mp4

04:50

20. Demo-Making COBOL Changes in EDIT While Browsing COPY Books.mp4

16:03

21. Summary-Using the ISPF Editor to Identify Code Changes and Make Them.mp4

01:44

06. Other ISPF Options That You Can Expect to See

22. Overview-3rd Party Tools from SCLM to SDSF.mp4

00:14

23. Scenario-How to Promote COBOL Source and See Test Results.mp4

07:15

24. Demo-The System Display and Search Utility.mp4

05:45

25. Summary-3rd Party Tools Why We Need Them and How to Use Them.mp4

02:38

Description

This course will teach you how to use the ISPF File/Program Editor running in a TSO Session to find what program(s) you need to fix and how to apply your edits in a typical Mainframe “Shop”.

What You'll Learn?

For some, the IBM mainframe world of legacy programs may be a bit intimidating. It is not the finite ecosystem of programming in a java or .Net environment. But (due to a scarcity of resources) you may find yourself being asked to code a quick fix for a COBOL program and - being able to do so - may well be the differentiator that makes you the “go to gal or guy” in an IBM ‘shop”! in this course, TSO/ISPF Getting Started, you’ll learn what to do when you are given a specification. First, you’ll explore the ISPF utilities - where you will be able to search for the programs that you'll need to analyze and copy to your own project libraries for the fix. Next, you’ll discover how to set up PF keys so you can hot key from panel to panel, under different menus and organize your workflow by creating test and staging (PDS) libraries. Finally, you’ll learn how to use ISPF command lines and line commands to edit your fixes and limit your edits to just the few lines of COBOL. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge needed to fix COBOL programs and stage the results in a manner that seasoned COBOL programmers would consider as consistent with their own standards and, perhaps, you will realize why those same programmers prefer using the ISPF editor as the easiest and fastest way to get the job done.

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George Rady, started taking night school classes and punched out (literally, on punch cards) his first COBOL program into a card reader at Computer Learning Center back in 1983. He has just completed several years with JP Morgan / Chase rolling new code (digitally) into production for the largest Credit Card processing platform in the world. In the intervening years, he has worked for dozens of companies, on hundreds of projects; coding for petabyte IMS and DB2 databases, to coding VSAM applications that delivers hundreds of thousands of transactions… in seconds… and all in good, old, COBOL, the language he was assured was “on it’s last legs” in the 1990s. His latest challenges await the upgrade to IBM’s zOS2.4 so that – the (internal) Clouds – can be migrated to the mainframe, accessing Legacy data using the Coupling Facility rather than go thru the TCP/IP stack. His knowledge of Extended Containers await the projects of integration to bring about this next evolution of IT!

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